That sounds good, but obviously we can't use ning.com if it doesn't do UK postcodes. I'm very keen to support/advertise Google maps (http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
), because of their whole business practice (have you *seen* their office? ;) ), involvement in Open Source (Summer of Code, porting Google Earth to Linux, Wine, etc.) but that's just a personal preference - what do you think to that? Also, the map is easily zoomable, scrollable and you can navigate around it like lightning compared with any other map I've used online.
If you look at the source on http://map.ubuntu-be.org/fr/index.php, each new point on the map is a block of _javascript_:
var point = new GLatLng(50.6627,5.5239);
var marker = createSupporterMarker(point, 'Emmanuel, lilit.be, utilisateur expérimenté<br />rue Monfort<br />4430 Ans<br />Seulement des packs d\'installation gravés en stock<br />Démonstration, installation possible<br />Volontaire individuel<br /><a href="" contact.php?id=11">Me contacter</a> ');
map.addOverlay(marker);
var marker = createSupporterMarker(point, 'Emmanuel, lilit.be, utilisateur expérimenté<br />rue Monfort<br />4430 Ans<br />Seulement des packs d\'installation gravés en stock<br />Démonstration, installation possible<br />Volontaire individuel<br /><a href="" contact.php?id=11">Me contacter</a> ');
map.addOverlay(marker);
So if you could write some PHP that would take data from an "add my location to the map" form and actually stuff it into a PHP include file in the format above and save the include file, that'd be amazing!
Before we can sign up for an API key for Google maps, we need a domain name. Perhaps you could sign up temporarily for one on your own domain to play with it for now, if you so wish. I'll start a separate thread on whether or not we should have a separate site - I and John Levin have mentioned a few pros and cons in private and it needs airing to the whole community first!
Steve :)
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